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The Gulf Streams Warmth.

The fact is we'll understood, Of course,
that Great Britain and other parts of
northwestern Europe owe much, in the
matter of climate and temperature, to the
warming influence of the Gulf Stream.
The extent of the effect which is thus
produced, according to the calculations
made by DR.. Croll, almost exceed belief,
or even comprehension, in mathemati.
cal sense. He has found, by careful
scientific estimate, that the amount. OF
heat conveyed northward in the Atlantic
by this stream is equivalent to 77,479,-
$50, 900, 900, 900, 900 foot pounds of en-
ergy per day, which is equal to all the
heat received by 1850, 935 square miles
at the equator, and more heat than is
conveyed by all the air currents-and so
positive is it's climatic effect, and so far
reaching, that, according to DR.. Croll,
the heat of the Arctic seas and North
Atlantic would be diminished to that i'm
mense extent by the stoppage or diversion
of the great ocean river.
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Fashion Notes.

Wide gold bands are an old style now
revived in bracelets.
Some new imported French hose are in
black and white checks.
The tailor made costume continues to
be the correct style for street dress.
Pointed finger nails and pointed bangs
represent fashions that are going out OF
vogue.
French jackets in varions styles are seen
as a part of many Spring toilets. A favor
ite shape.
Handsome ribbon is much used in the
making up of floral ornaments for house
and table decoration.
The hair is still dressed high, but the
small knot at the back of the head is
adopted by many ladies.
Cheviots and Angora cloths, in fine
lines, checks and stripes, furnish mate
rial for many of the lightweight spring
suits.
Among the favorite colors for dressy
toilets are golden brown, pale prim-
rose yellow, copper color and Persian
lilac.
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Seventeen Health Hints.

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1. Be regular in your habits. z
2. If possible, go to bed at the same
hour every night. &
8. Rise in the morning soon after you
are awake. - .- 49,
4. A sponge bath of cold or tepid
water should be followed by friction
with towel or hand.
s. Eat plain food.
8. Begin your morning meal with
fruit. -
z. Don't go to work Immediately after
eating.
8. Be moderate in the use of liquids at
all seasons.
9. 1t is safer to filter and boil drinking
water. -
10. Exercise in the open air whenever
the weather permits. sg
II. In malarious districts do your
walking in the middle of the day..
10. Keep the feet comfortable and
well protected.
1S. Wear woolen clothing the year
round. -
IA. See that your sleeping rooms and
living rooms are well ventilated, and that
sewer gas does not enter them.
Is. Brush your teeth at least twice q
day, night and morning. 81
16. Don't worry. It interferes with
the healthful action of the stomach.
II. You must have interesting occu-
patton in vigorous old age. Continue to
keep the brain active. Rest means rust.
Herald of Health. H.. - - 2
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The Great Pension Building.

The interior of the great hall Of the
pension building will soon be finished.
The immense stretch of wall has nearly
all been plastered, and some idea can be
formed of what the completed half will
look like. Whatever difference of opin-
ion there may be as to the merits of the
outside of the building, it will no doubt
be generally admitted that this hall is
graud room. In point of size it is larger,
with one exception, than any audience
room in this country, and in point OF
capacity stands about fourth. in the
list of the large interiors of the world.
The great Mormon tabernacle in Salt
Lake CITY is said to have the largest
capacity of any building in this country.
1t will seat about $1,000 people. ~
Gen. Mcigs, the architect Of the pen
sion building, says that the hall in the
pension building and the galleries sur
rounding it have a seating capacity OF
II. 3O7 men. The hall itself is 318 feet
long and 116 feet wide, while it has two
ties of galleries extending all around it
which are IL feet in width. A third
gallery, which encirclcs the hall, has
width of S feet. Gen. Meigs says he has
estimated that 10000 people can find
standing room in this great space. St.
Peters Church, Rome, which is the
largest structure in the world, will, in
the same way, hold 81, 600 people, while
the Milan Cathedral will accommodate
$1,000; St. Pauls Rome, $4,000, and
St. Paul's London, $4,000. Gen. Meigs
says he has no doubt that the principal
portion of the inauguration exercises will
in the futrue be held in this hall, as well
as public funerals and other exercises
which attract large gatherings of the
people. Washington Star.
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How to Polish Cows Horns.

First boil the horn to remove the pith,
if it has been freshly taken from the ami
NAL; but if it is an old, dry horn the pith
may be dried out, and boiling is not
necessary; but it may be laid in hot water
for short time to make it soft. Then
scrape off all the roughness with coarse
file, knife, or piece of glass. When
the rough spots are removed rub around
the horn with coarse sandpaper, then
with finer kind. After this, rub the
horn lengthwise with flannel cloth
which has been dipped in powdered
pumice stone or rotten stone, and moist
eneed in linseed oil. This rubbing should
continue lii all the sandpaper marks are
removed, then give a final rubbing with a
clean flannel cloth, and lastly with piece
of tissue aper.-Inter- Ocean.
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WHO KNOWS ?
Who Of us know

Who Of us know
how our next neighbor faresl
How of the woes and many cares
That rise like mountains in their way?
And who of us can say
We know Of that large world We never see,
The world of povertys
Who of US know
How much of pain smiling face concea!s,
How little of the sunlight ever steals
Into the lives of those who seem the happiest
The one who makes us merry with the jest,
May he not carry in his heart so free
A wound he does not wish the world to see?
Who of us love,
And loving, cherish but the empty name,
And feed our hearts on naught; the flame
That burns so brilliant and so bright,
That lights our path as do the stars of night,
Goes out as quick as heavens lightning flashes
And leaves us-ashes!
George Wilmot Harris.
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Ladies Of Sumatra.

The wealth of Lampong lady is esti-
mated by the number and weight of her
ornaments; these, however, are only fully
displayed on feast days and other high
occasions; such is etiquette among "the
upper ten" in the southeastern part of Su-
matra. Native goldsmiths make these
ornaments, and the purchaser gives in ex-
change weight for weight, in silver or
gold, as the case may be. Young girls
and children are heavily encountered with
them; indeed, every young miss is ar
rayed in sinkels or bracelets, OF many
shapes, of silver; the greater the wealth
and higher the position of the parent, the
larger the number of glittering bands and
tinkling ornaments of every sort; rows
upon rows of bracelets on her arms, and
large button-like rings in her ears, and all
these ornaments are worn until she mar
ries.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

They are happy whose natures sort with
their vocations.
Longing for goodness does not bring
it. It is to be sought with all the might.
Modesty is to worth what shadows arc
in a painting; she gives to it strength and
relief.
Old mems eyes are like old mems mem
ories; they are strongest for things long
way off. :lsF
Men resemble the gods in nothing so
much as in doing good for their fellow
creatures. .s.
You cannot dream yourself into q
character; you must hammer and forge
yourself one. o..
Initiate time It. destroys slowly. It
undermines, wears, loosens, separates. It
does not uproot.
A weak mind is like a microscope, :
which magnifes trifing things, but can
not receive great ones.
Do not fail to make good resolutions
now because you failed to keep some you
made last year. Try again.
Thou shalt know by experience how
salt the SAVIOR is of others bread, and how
sad a path it is to climb and descend an
others stairs.
All mankind are happier for having
been happy, 50 that, if you make them
happy now, you make them happy twen-
ty years hence by the memory of it.
He is the greatest man who chooses the
right with invincible resolution, who
bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully,
and whose reliance on truth and virtue is
the most unfaltering.
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual
meanness, where, although both parties
intend deception, neither are deceived,
since words that cost little are exchanged
for hopes that cost less. -
We have certain work to do for our
needs, and that is to be done strenously;
other work to do for our delight, and
that is to be done heartily; neither is it
to be done by halves or shifts; but with
a will; and what is not worth this effort
is not to be done at all.
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Outside jackets for Spring wear are
longer than those worn last fall, and q
hood of the material of the garment,
lined with striped satin, is added.
Bonnets of black lace and black beaded
Spanish net over foundations of primrose,
lavendar, pink, sea green or cherry satin,
are worn by fashionable ladies at the
present time.
The newest plain English jackets are
cut considerably longer than last spring,
and are perfect fitting at the back and
under the arms, with loose fronts fitted
by single dart.
Some of the new white woods have gay
figures or minute lines of golden brown,
cardinal, black, heliotrope or blue. They
should be trimmed with rows of picot
velvet ribbon.
The coronet is feature of the new
Spring bonnets. It may be simply a
revers of straw, or of beads, or velvet
ornamented with beads, or else of fine
flowers massed together without foliage.
Loops of velvet of the darkest moss
green are used to trim some of the new
bonnets, and these are lined with spinach
or apple green satin, the flowers used with
these trimmings being pale green hops
and pink roses.
Both double and single-breasted jack
cts are worn. Horn buttons with eyes
in the centre, or else tinted pearl buttons,
are used on double-breasted coats, and
smaller lasting or braid buttons upon
single-breasted ones.
Some lower-crowned bonnets are
shown, the crowns being of silk or lace
or of beads, with brims of straw or
beaded. There are also handkerchief
crowns in soft folds, with some of the
corners turned up in points in front.
Among the Spring wraps may be seen
dolman shapes with short jacket backs
and long tab fronts, very short visites
with sling sleeves and Russian hood, and
still others have the fronts gathered to a
point, and finished with heavy silk cord
and jet tassels.
Camel's hair, albatross, serge and nuns
cloth are among the white wool goods
intended for spring and summer wear.
Heavy watered ribbon, an inch and a
quarter wide, will be used as garniture
upon these dresses, being placed in rows
upon the overskirt, both front and back.
Smooth taffetas and beiges are shown
among the new wool stuffs. These are
always popular, on account of their light
weight, and may be- had plain or barred
in lines of contrasting color, or crossed
with knotted threads of the same shade,
or striped with double or twisted threads,
giving rough surface.
Foremost among the new skirt dra-
peries are the bell skirts and the inverted
bell skirts, two directly opposing styles.
One shows the skirt draped at the back
with an appearance of fullness at the bot
tom, and is intended for stout ladies, the
other, intended for slender women, hav-
ing the fulncss Immediately below the
waist. The effect in either case, when
arranged in moderation, is excellent.
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Bound to Be in Style.

Dakota ladies will have fashionable
styles. A leading merchant in one of the
towns states that many of his lady GUS
toners buy the most costly material for
dress on the installment plan, paying
each month what can be realized from
hens and cows. One lady in the Upper
James Valley, not having the hens or
COWS, and the wheat crop leaving no
margins, was at a loss how to secure a
fine fur cloak, but proved equal to the oc-
casion. She went to trapping minks.
She had great success, and tanned the
hides herself. She then sent them to a
St. Paul house, and had returned beau
tiful cloak at small expense. The st.
Paul parties wanted to give her 1925 for
it, but she would not sell it any price
st. Paul Globe.
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A Powerful Explosive.

If melinite, the new explosive invented
by a French chemist, is all that the gov.
ernment of France claims, it will revolu-
tionize warfare. General Brialmont, who
has recently been experimenting in Bel:
gium with the new explosive, has advised
the Roumanian Government to suspend
labor on the defensive works around
Bucharest. He asserts that it will be
necessary to devise new plans to with
stand the new explosive. If Bucharest,
one of the very strongest fortresscs in
Europe is unable to withstand the force
of melinitc, the coast Notifications of all
the world may be considered worthless.
1t is worth while to bear in mind, how
ever, that bluffing is favorite move in
the game of European diplomacy just at
present. Russia, for instance, claims
the invention of an explosive a trif1e of
ten or fifteen times more powerful than
melinite. York Commercial
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Vegetable Meat.Eaters.

One of the best known of these insect
eating plants found here, as well as in
Lapland and Scandinavia, is the sun-dew,
discovered about century ago. An
other plant, the so-called Flytrap of
Venus Dionaa) of America, which was
brought to England one hundred and
twenty years ago, has received the name
of Venus for the reason that, like the
Goddess of Beauty, it attracts and capti-
Yates everything that heedlessly ap-
proaches it. At the bottom of the plant
the leaves cluster like rosette; from the
center of this arises the flower stalk. The
edge of the leaf, which is nearly circular,
is over-grown with strong bristles, while
its surface is covered with small glands,
at either side of which are three long
hairs. A fly approaches; carelessly it
settles on the leaf, and perchance touches
one of the six long hairs: suddenly the
leaf folds, the bristles interlace, and the
insect is caught. Oftentimes the whole
tragedy takes but ten seconds. The SEN
sitive hairs have performed their duty;
now begins the work of the glands.
These discharge large quantity of a
colorless acid slime-t6e digestive fluid,
pepsin-and the closed leaf changes at
once into o stomachic organ. After a
lapse of eight or nine days the leaf reopens,
the insect has disappeared, the prey has
been consumed. The aforementioned
facts constitute the main features of the
process of digestion, but in connection
with it many questions arise. What hap
pens, for instance, if non-edible object
irritate the hairs, perhaps a stone or a
piece of wood2 The leaf closes with the
greatest possible swiftness, but soon dis
covers its mistake, and does not discharge
the digestive juice; after lapse of TWEEN
ty-four hours it again unfolds, ready for
another capture. This does away with
the marks of distinction thus far generally
accepted, namely, that "plants live, ami
mails live and feel, ," for the Dionaa distin-
guishes quite readily, by taste and feeling,
that which is digestible from that which
is not. BY experiment, it has been as
certained that nitrogenous nourishment
is preferred by the Dionea; hence every
kind of meat beef, pork, and veal, either
raw, fried or stewed) is digested by the
plant; also albumen and cheese; the lat
ter, however, causes disturbances during
digestion. and the leaf easily ails.-Popu-
Ian, Science MONTHLY.
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W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Her Answer.

On my right at dinner sat Mollie,
On my left there was little May Belle,
Who is always so sparkling and jolly,
And who likes me, fancy, quite well.
The former somehow spoke of ages;
snow, what would you take me to bel"
asked. She replied: "Of life's pages
suppose you have turned twenty-three
Miss Belle on my left was distracted,
And did not our words overhear,
Nor knew she the answer expected
As whispered quite low in her ear.
j" And what would you take me for, Maryp
And then the small maiden perverse,
From out of abstraction, quite wary,
Responded: "For better or worse"
Samuel William Cooper, in Life.
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A Very Sanguine Man.

"There goes one of the most sanguil, d,
men 1 ever knew"
"So2"
eyes, his implicit faith in the advance
mcnt of civilization, and the good things
the future has in store for us is simply
wonderful"
"Does he think the future will bring
messenger boys who can walk mile in
half day9 Surely he is not so rash as
that"
ooh, worse than that. Why he actual
ly argues that the next century will bring
BARRIERS who can cut mans hair, and not
let more than half of it drop down the
back of his neck.-SJtings.
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THE HOME DOCTOR.
For Nasal Catarrh.

Take four or five tablespoonfuls warm
salt water, add two drops tincture blood
root and snuff up the nostrils, holding it
there few minutes, then snuff itup hard
to clean out the nostrils. Try this every
morning.
In using any iniment for rheumatism,
neuralgia or any aches, swellings, ETC.,
wet cloth with it and bind on or press
on it with the hands till it heats up vel,
or heat it well by the fire. -
For dry, hacking cough, two or three
times day take little pinch of salt, let
it dissolve slowly on the tongue and then
swallow. -. 80
Another: Take five cents worth each
pulverized icorice, pulverized licorice
extract and ground aaxseed; mix to.
gether, put little in cup, add strained
honey to sweeten well, steep in hot water
till icorice is dissolved. Take good
dose of it as often as the coughs trouble
some. 1t is sure, safe, speedy relief.
Try it once.-J. W. FooTE.. (
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The national debt per capita of the
United States is $23, or including State
debts, $27; that of France is $124; of
Great Britain, $127; of Holland, $115; of
Italy, $50; of Belgium, $7S; of Germany,
500. The combined national and State
taxes, excluding county, town and other
local taxes, are, for the United States,
$3.50 per capita, or So, including pay
ment on the public debt; for Italy, SO. 40;
for Holland, $1,000; for Belgium, $11;
for Great Britain, $1l.S0; for Germany,
s12; for France, $1s, or, with the annual
deficit, SO.
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The Courtesy Of Turkish Sultan.

The Courtesy or q TURKISH sultan.
NJ. Julliard tells the following interest
ing story in his article on 'Life Beneath
the Crescent" in the Cosmopolitan: ]
have not spoken of the Beylerby Palace,
situated on the Asiatic shores of the Bos-
phorus; but it is, beyond question, the
most charming of the residences of the
Sultans. 1t is fanked on the right and
left by two pavllions, which are very
pleasant and of remarkable elegance.
Beautiful terraces, hanging gardens in
tiers, where grow the rarest plants, o
summer-house crowning the top of the
slope, porticos, yoke elms, fountains,
clusters of roses-nothing is wanting in
this Incompatible residence to make it
the most agreablee buen retiros that I ever
saw.
The Empress Eugene, after having
taken part in the Inauguration of the Suez
Canal in 1869, passed some days in this
beautiful residence, proudly enthroned
among all these charming surroundings.
On this occasion Abdul Aziz displayed a
gallantry that the sovereigns of the West,
well-bred as they are, might indeed envy.
Previous to the arrival of the Empress, a
government commissioner was sent to
Paris to get model of the sleeping apart
ments of Eugene. He copied the small
est details, even to book left open at a
certain page, even to piece of unfinished
embroidery left on work-basket. Every
thing was reproduced in the Beylerby
Palace with the most scrupulous fidelity
-hangings, carpets, furniture, works of
art, all the thousand knick-knacks were
to be found there in their original form
and place, the most trifing differences
being observed, as if they had been trans
ported by a magic wand. When the En-
press entered this marvellous chamber,
and the room leading to it, she cried,
taken by surprise: "Ah! mon Dieu, I'm
at homel"
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Chinese Maids in Silken Trousers.

One oriental damsel who was airing
herself and her fnery simultaneously yes
terday afternoon on Dupont street wore
pale-blue silk coat with huge fannel-like
sleeves trimmed with black and pale yell
low silk braid. Her trousers were of
black silk, also bordered with pale yel-
low; her boat-like sabots were embroid-
cred with blue silk, and the deep white
soles provide an area about three square
inches for the maid to stand erect upon.
Another celestial maiden was similarly
dressed, except that that garment which,
among Christians, is peculiar to males,
was gorgeous orange silk. A third girl
wore an azure blue skirt, crimson coat,
and bright green trousers. Still another
wore pale violet cloak over dark-blue
blouse, her trousers also being green.
A very brilliant costume was a crimson
silk coat with broad band of green and
red embroidery running all around the
skirts, neck and sleeves; the trousers were
bright blue and the shoes prettily en-
broidered in pink and gold. A pale blue
cloak, violet trousers with yellow trim
mings, pearl-beaded head-dress, and fine
ly worked silver bangles on wrists and
feet formed the principal features of the
costume Of small Mongol maiden, who
held in her hand the diminutive cue of
her small brother who trotted before her.
The boy was hardly less attractiyely
dressed, and his pale pink silk round hat
was decorated with bright red silk knob
and huge tassel of the same material and
color.-San Francisco Chronicle.
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Ten days later the French salesman re-
appeared. In vain Reginald Fontaine re-
counted these facts and urged delay until
the swindler was captured and the locket
recovered. The Frenchman only
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-04-14

mean time the rest of the body has
more than doubled in magnitude. Not
only is the brain larger, but it is more
excitable aud mare impressionablc in
the child than in the adult At the same
time the structure is immature. What
it possesses in size il lacks in organi-
zation; consequently it is not at its
maximum for severe and loDg-cOntin-
ued exertion, and when subjected to a
strain of this kind it is certain to suf-
fer. The disadvantages to the child of
everlasting it's muscular system are
well understood, and wise laws have
been enacted by most civilized people
protecting children from the greed of
those who would;1 ii left to their own
devices, work them to excess. But
there are no laws for the protection of
their brains from the attacks of ignO-
rant parents and guardians, the insidi-
Gus warfare of the compilers of school
books who write treaties on physiOlO-
gy in rhyme for infants, and the ever
ready schoolmaster, who, with the
child, Il victim of II perniciOus system,
must carry out the behests of those set
over him.